NSA considered spying on
Canadians without this country’s consent, top-secret directive says

OTTAWA — The U.S. National Security Agency considered spying on
Canadians without the knowledge or consent of its intelligence partners
in this country, according to a top-secret draft NSA directive.

The 2005 memo, leaked to The Guardian newspaper by former
NSA contractor Edward Snowden, details how the NSA considered
“unilaterally” targeting the citizens and communication systems of
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The countries are part of the “Five
Eyes” intelligence-gathering pact that also includes the U.S. and United
Kingdom. The directive refers to partner nations as “second-party”
countries.

“Under certain circumstances, it may be advisable and allowable to
target second party persons and second party communications systems
unilaterally when it is in the best interests of the U.S. and necessary
for U.S. national security,” says the directive, classified as “NF” for
No Foreign and is titled Collection, Processing and Dissemination of
Allied Communications.

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“Such targeting must be performed exclusively within the direction,
procedures and decision processes outlined in this directive.”

The document states the proposed U.S. spying on its Five-Eyes
partners can take place even when the partner government has explicitly
denied the U.S. permission to do so, says The Guardian. “The
memo makes clear that partner countries must not be informed about this
surveillance, or even the procedure itself.”

In a later part of the draft cleared for release to the Five-Eyes
countries, the document suggests there may be circumstances in which
Canada, Australia and New Zealand should co-operate to allow the U.S. to
target their citizens.

The public release of the directive is part of a series of calculated
leaks over the past year in which Snowden has exposed a vast campaign by
the NSA, assisted by Five-Eyes partners, to snoop on U.S. and global
electronic communications in the name of counter-terrorism.

“The slow release of secret documents by Snowden [via journalist
Glenn] Greenwald is having a cumulative effect which may reach a tipping
point,” says Tom Quiggin, an Ottawa security and intelligence expert.

“The NSA runs the risk of losing the confidence of its allies and
forcing allied agencies into distancing themselves from the NSA and the
U.S. government.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Internet and telecommunications companies such as
Cisco are now reporting slipping international sales directly
attributable to the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s unauthorized
disclosures.

Microsoft moved this week to assure international customers by
pledging to fight in court any attempt by U.S. intelligence agencies to
seize its foreign customers’ data under American surveillance laws, one
of a series of steps aimed at reassuring nervous users abroad.

Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told Reuters the company will
dramatically increase the amount of encryption it uses for internal
traffic, following similar moves by Google and Yahoo after reports the
NSA had illicitly tapped into their facilities overseas.

The NSA runs the risk of losing the confidence of its allies and
forcing allied agencies into distancing themselves from the NSA and the
U.S. governmen

The Five-Eyes coalition was formed under the 1946 UKUSA Agreement,
which was believed to limit the ability of the partner countries to spy
on each other. Ottawa’s Communications Security Establishment Canada
(CSEC), the country’s premier intelligence agency, maintains a close
partnership with the NSA.

The original 1946 UKUSA agreement between the U.S. and Britain was
previously designed only for “foreign intelligence” operations. The
draft directive appears to indicate that the agreement has changed,
according to The Guardian.

“(The 1946 UKUSA) agreement has evolved to include a common
understanding that both governments will not target each other’s
citizens/persons” says the directive. “However, when it is in the best
interest of each nation, each reserved the right to conduct unilateral
Comint (communications intelligence) action against each other’s
citizens/persons.”

In a later part of the draft cleared for release to the Five-Eyes
countries, the document suggests there may be circumstances in which
Canada, Australia and New Zealand should co-operate to allow the U.S. to
target their citizens.

International law does not provide much guidance on transnational
peacetime spying, says Craig Forcese, a leading expert on national
security law at the University of Ottawa.

“International law rules pertaining to spying are best described as a
checkerboard of principles,” he wrote in a recent blog posting. “The
clearest principle is a simple expression of sovereignty preoccupations:
don’t spy on the territory of another state, in violation of its laws.

“Beyond that, there is no simple rule governing the international
legality of spying. This may not be a happy situation, but it is fair to
say that this is the world that states have quite clearly set out to
create. After all, all states spy at one time or another.”

In the long run, the real damage may be to U.S. society, concludes
Quiggin.

“Ironically, it was similar spying and information collection
activities of the British Crown that lit the fires of revolution in
America in the 1760s. Using a new law called the ‘Writs of Assistance,’
the King’s men were able to search the homes, papers and belongings of
anyone without warning and seize all information and goods,” in pursuit
of smuggled contraband.

Ontario has it's own secret police, lawyers refer to them as "The
Gestapo" and when they refer to "The Gestapo" they are referring to the
48 Secretive Cult like private corporations who bilk Ontario TaxPayers
for billions of dollars in their war on society, snatching children from
parents by fabricating evidence.

The average person has no comprehension that these criminals have
their own judges, who go from being lawyers fabricating evidence for the
Gestapo one day and the next day, making crown wards of the same cases
they worked on the day before.

They have their own secret courts, with publicity bans, that is
designed to intimidate just like Hitler's black shirts.

Just like Hitler's Gestapo, these lowest forms of life intimidate
their own staff and contaminate dam near everyone they come into contact
with, encouraging them to fabricate evidence to "help them out".

This Ontario Gestapo, costs Ontario Billions and the Ontario
Government needs one hell of a wake up call as to the staggering costs
that this out of control rogue cult is causing to Ontario.

In Ottawa there are two classic examples of Criminals Running a
racket by fabricating evidence.

The worst of the worst, is Marguerite Lewis, a lawyer for the
Children's Aid Society of Ottawa.

This is one of most vile examples of humanity one could ever wish to
encounter.
She is known locally as "The Baby Snatcher".

She is a true disciple of Gobbels, the bigger the lie, the easier it
is to convince, a judge, especially one of the many former lawyers for
the same corrupt cult who get their lawyers appointed to the bench.

In any other area, ethical judges refuse to hear cases involving
their old law firms, but not the underbellies of the legal profession
who have no calms about making decisions for their "former employer.

They have their own secret courts, publicity bans, legislation coming
out their rear ends to protect themselves from "negative publicity".

I've got news for them. The public especially those who are victims
of these criminals mascarading as Child Protection Workeres that their
days are coming to an end.

It's only a matter of time before there is a national outcry
regarding their billions, and billions of dollars flushed down the drain
that belonged to taxpayers.

It's cost to society is staggering police costs, court costs, welfare
costs, the cost in all the fatherless children who grow up without a
father.

Then there is the abuse, Foster Parents are a very high risk of being
child abusers. These criminals prefer to take children from loving
devoted parents and putting them with known child abusers.

If want to meet a member of the Ontario Gestapo, visit your local
Children's Aid Society where adoption and foster parenting are all part
of their corrupt racket that requires endless fabrication of evidence
and abuse of children not to mention parents.